Chemists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Scripps Research Institute have developed an innovative technique to create cheap but highly stable chemicals that have the potential to take the place of the antibodies used in many standard medical diagnostic tests.
James R...

INDIANAPOLIS Researchers from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) have developed Distributed Drug Discovery (D3), a new low-cost strategy to accelerate the discovery of drugs to treat neglected diseases such as tuberculosis, leprosy, leshmaniasis, dengue fever, and Chagas dis...

North America's Largest Chemical Industry Trade Fair Offers New Chemists and Chemical Engineers an Opportunity to Consider Innovation in the Chemical Industry
PRINCETON, N.J., Dec. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Informex today announced that it will invite young chemists to attend the upcoming Infor...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be a doctor's best friend for detecting a tumor in the body without resorting to surgery. MRI scans use pulses of magnetic waves and gauge the return signals to identify different types of tissue in the body, distinguishing ...

HOBOKEN, N.J. A 10-pound rodent pest called nutria ravaging southern wetlands in the US, which has been especially damaging to the marshland ecology in the Mississippi Delta following Hurricanes Rita and Katrina, may have finally met its match thanks to molecular science that includes the work of...

AMES, Iowa An anti-virus drug attacks influenza A by changing the motion and structure of a proton channel necessary for the virus to infect healthy cells, according to a recently published research paper by two Iowa State University chemists.
Mei Hong, Iowa States John D. Corbett Professor in...

Amyloid plaques, the hallmark of Alzheimer's disease, are clumps of fiber-like misfolded proteins which many experts think cause this devastating neurodegenerative disease.
While effective treatment remains an elusive goal, new research by University of Illinois at Chicago chemists suggests a ...

BOSTON, Aug. 19, 2007 Computer analysis of existing drugs may be key to fighting new infectious agents and antibiotic-resistant pathogens like deadly tuberculosis strains and staph superbugs. Researchers in Canada say the use of such emergency discovery technology could save time, money and lives...

... pharmacokinetic profile that could support once-daily dosing.
"This latest discovery is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration between chemists and biologists," Wentland said. "In the process, we are working together to identify novel therapies to treat human diseases and find possible solutio...

...ip 96-well
plate specially designed to remove phospholipids including
lysophosphatidylcholines, from biofluids.
It is intended for use by analytical chemists in the pharmaceutical and
life science industries performing quantitative and qualitative analyses of
drugs in biofluids. In applications such as drug...

...sed on functional descriptors.
"MetaMiner (Oncology) is a new generation pathway analysis tool,
specifically tailored for biologists, clinicians and chemists working in
different cancer areas," said Yuri Nikolsky, CEO of GeneGo and the grant's
PI. "Neoplasms are tremendously complex diseases, with many hund...

... develop HSP90
inhibitors, the same potential exists here. "This will spur a new line of
inquiry into GRP94. While this work is its infancy, medicinal chemists will
be interested in developing GRP94-targeted drugs," Gewirth said. Other authors of the publication include: D. Eric Dollins, recent Ph.D.
graduat...

...osteoarthritis ingredient
used today by millions of Americans to treat joint pain and stiffness, was
deliberately adulterated with a chemical that TSI chemists could not even
identify. "Our Chinese suppliers were profiting by tricking our testing
techniques," said Joe Zhou, president of TSI international ope...

...r he observed that bacteria took up toxic dyes that human cells did not. The first major class of antibiotics was the sulfa drugs, derived by French chemists originally from azo dyes. Throughout the twentieth century, major advances in the treatment of infectious diseases were observable in (Western) soci...

RICHLAND, Wash. -- Single oxygen atoms dancing on a metal oxide slab, glowing brighter here and dimmer there, have helped chemists better understand how water splits into oxygen and hydrogen. In the process, the scientists have visualized a chemical reaction that had previously only been talked ab...

STORRS, Conn. - Chemists at the University of Connecticut have found a way to greatly increase the luminescence efficiency of single-walled carbon nanotubes, a discovery that could have significant applications in medical imaging and other areas.
Increasing the luminescence efficiency of carbo...

CLEMSON Clemson University researchers want to strengthen chemistry skills starting at the molecular level and are introducing revolutionary ways for high school- and college-level educators to do that for students.
Clemson chemistry professors Melanie Cooper and Gautam Bhattacharyya, along wi...

From pacemakers constructed of materials that so closely mimic human tissues that a patient's body can't discern the difference to devices that bypass injured spinal cords to restore movement to paralyzed limbs, the possibilities presented by organic electronics read like something from a science ...

Mexico City once topped lists of places with the worst air pollution in the world. Although efforts to curb emissions have improved the situation, tiny particles called aerosols still clog the air. Now, atmospheric scientists from UC San Diego and six other institutions have sorted through the pal...

After a close examination of crude oil made from pig manure, chemists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are certain about a number of things.
Most obviously, "This stuff smells worse than manure," says NIST chemist Tom Bruno.
But a job's a job, so the NIST team has...

New spray-on films developed by UC San Diego chemists will be the basis of portable devices that can quickly reveal trace amounts of nitrogen-based explosives.
Contaminated fingerprints leave dark shadows on the films, which glow blue under ultraviolet light. One of the films can distinguish be...

Plays well with others.
That popular phrase on a T-shirt is being taken to a whole new level in higher education these days, as experts in a variety of fields increasingly must work together to address some of society's biggest challenges, from a warming planet to cancer.
But how do scientis...

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Mother Nature regulates critical cellular activities in plants and animals by using enzymes, catalysts that bring about specific biochemical reactions. Looking to learn from nature, a team of Northwestern University chemists has received a $5 million grant from the Air Force Off...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] Brown University chemists have found the origins of an odor the sweet smell of fresh dirt. In Nature Chemical Biology, the Brown team shows that the protein that makes geosmin source of the good earth scent has two similar but distinct halves, each playing a...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] Even small devices need power, and much of that juice comes from fuel cells. As these devices become even smaller, the rush is on to find more efficient ways to power them.
In the last several years, scientists have discovered that palladium, a metal, is a s...

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Northwestern University nanoscientist Chad A. Mirkin has mass-produced the 2008 Summer Olympics logo -- 15,000 times. All the logos take up only one square centimeter of space.
Mirkin and his colleagues printed the logos as well as an integrated gold circuit using a new prin...

New spray-on films developed by UC San Diego chemists will be the basis of portable devices that can quickly reveal trace amounts of nitrogen-based explosives.
Contaminated fingerprints leave dark shadows on the films, which glow blue under ultraviolet light. One of the films can distinguish be...

...ilable chemicals and procured for actual testing of their biological properties.
ChemNavigator provides medicinal, computational and synthetic chemists with a comprehensive set of virtual screening tools and products that allows them to channel their chemical designs toward sets of commercially availa...

...nia borane, serves as a sort of structural support. The catalyst plucks the hydrogen from the ammonia borane as needed to run the device.
The PNNL chemists in the Institute for Interfacial Catalysis study a rhodium-based catalyst that performs this job fairly well, but might have potential for improvement...

...e assays and robotics, and defining the compounds' structures largely through trial and error. At the end of this months-long process, a large team of chemists and biologists usually deem only 1% or fewer of the compounds worthy of further testing in living cells.
A novel method, demonstrated by Whitehead ...

... Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have turned simple baker's yeast into a virtual army of medicinal chemists capable of rapidly searching for drugs to treat Parkinson's disease.
In a study published online today in Nature Chemical Biology , the researcher...

...squo;s state-of-the-art robotic screening system to run bioassays and characterize lead candidates from the collection. The Burnham team of Medicinal chemists will then optimize novel compounds to afford potential biological probes and preclinical drug candidates. The groups’ combined expertise in soph...

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been a great challenge to protein chemists and biologists how to obtain a
complete description of protein 3D structure, including the irregular shapes
of loops and coils. With his expertise in...

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